(PC) Bowers v. El Dorado County Jail

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 COLIN GREGORY BOWERS, No. 2:21-cv-00520 DB P Plaintiff, v. ORDER EL DORADO COUNTY JAIL, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding pro se with a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. §1983. Presently, before the court is plaintiff’s request to file supplemental pleadings. (ECF No. 6.) On May 27, 2021, plaintiff filed with the court a document entitled “Supplemental to 42 USC 1983 Action: Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus, Companion to 2:21-cv-00520-DB.” (Id.) Plaintiff lists El Dorado County Sheriff John D’Agostini as the respondent. (Id. at 1.) It is unclear whether plaintiff intended to state a new cause of action under 42 U.S.C § 1983 or to file a petition for writ of habeas corpus. The document submitted by the plaintiff is written on the court’s habeas corpus petition form. (See Id.) However, within the document, plaintiff alleges what appears to be a new § 1983 claim against Sheriff…